Double hexagon nuts,
That reminds me, I went halfers buying one of a friend years ago for my dad, his hands are now too bad to work on bikes: so I will need to sort out the half rebuilt 1956 Matchless currently sitting on it and bring it down. I feel it in my lower back rather than the knees.Nice old triumph. I find jobs like that hard going on the knees now must sort a bike lift out.
I got a bike lift at mc mart (vat free) for the same reason as yourself (knees) one of the best decisions I've made.Nice old triumph. I find jobs like that hard going on the knees now must sort a bike lift out.
That reminds me, I went halfers buying one of a friend years ago for my dad, his hands are now too bad to work on bikes: so I will need to sort out the half rebuilt 1956 Matchless currently sitting on it and bring it down. I feel it in my lower back rather than the knees.
Will be both, a bit work involved though...The bike, the lift or both to your place
Halfway through, halfway through... I dream of being halfway through, I occasionally have half a day at it and then get overwhelmed with it all and give up.I have a bonny engine in bits for my triton project, rooting around the shelves on saturday having a tidy up, i found a gearbox, turns out it was a 650 gearbox i bought years ago and forgot i had. I was dead chuffed, something less to buy in future.
But shed tidying is something else that you say to yourself you'll have done in an hour or two, and five or six hours later, you are still only halfway through.
Halfway through, halfway through... I dream of being halfway through, I occasionally have half a day at it and then get overwhelmed with it all and give up.
I know I have the bottom end of a M21 engine somewhere but I can't remember if I ever got a suitable cylinder and piston for it, my plan is/was to bore it out to I think to 720cc from 600cc and fit it in my M20 to give it some more power.
used to get them plastic betterwear wedges for sash and case windows worked a treat between the cam followers to hold them while lifting the barrels i first worked on a triumph t 100 1947 type when i was 12 years old armed with my pitmans bookMy 69 Triumph Bonneville has not been getting used due to a blown head gasket. I bought a new gasket set some time ago, but it ended up sitting at the back of the garage for the best part of a year due to some health issues.
So a top end strip down commenced, only to find some minor corrosion in a bore. Suspect it was petrol sitting on top of the piston ring...
So barrel off ...
An a quick run down with a hone...
Some nice person had polished the crank many years ago, you can still see the shiny bits:
Then rebuild the top end, only discover after a straight forward reassembly (no warping of head)
The metal ring round the bottom of the pushrod tube is a sliding fit and was sitting correctly, over a short time it lifted and the lower seal popped out
So strip down again, sitting correctly now:
Head torqued down, valve clearances adjusted:
New battery fitted and back on the road at last, was expecting to do the job in a couple of hours, adding the block strip down to hone and rebuilding the whole engine to discover the seal popped, so strip down again and rebuild took near to 10 hours......
Still worth it
I wrap elastic bands round the top of the follower. You beat me by 2 years, I got a Tiger cub to rebuild when I was 14.used to get them plastic betterwear wedges for sash and case windows worked a treat between the cam followers to hold them while lifting the barrels i first worked on a triumph t 100 1947 type when i was 12 years old armed with my pitmans book
I wrap elastic bands round the top of the followed. You beat me by 2 years, I got a Tiger cub to rebuild when I was 14.
i got another magneto from TMS in nottingham for £15 at the time and fitted it
the bike ran superb timed with pencil down the plughole 3/8 btdc with advance unit wedged open and brass segment on slipring to that cyl
also had a 37 5T 6 stud with engine no 8 5T brought home on a barrow as the girders had been sold sadly long gone
the T 100 cost me £15 at the time them were the days
I used to use TMS too or Wullie Pitblado's in Dunfermline (some great pics on: https://get.google.com/albumarchive.../AF1QipNXOdvKNfl2Y4n-K2VgOMLFo3ovbHYGpSf9BNd_ )i got another magneto from TMS in nottingham for £15 at the time and fitted it
the bike ran superb timed with pencil down the plughole 3/8 btdc with advance unit wedged open and brass segment on slipring to that cyl
also had a 37 5T 6 stud with engine no 8 5T brought home on a barrow as the girders had been sold sadly long gone
the T 100 cost me £15 at the time them were the days
The Richard Hacker shop was within walking distance of our house in Penge South London, I think it closed down about ten years ago.for mail order: Richard Hacker,
The Richard Hacker shop was within walking distance of our house in Penge South London, I think it closed down about ten years ago.
I used to use TMS too or Wullie Pitblado's in Dunfermline (some great pics on: https://get.google.com/albumarchive.../AF1QipNXOdvKNfl2Y4n-K2VgOMLFo3ovbHYGpSf9BNd_ )
and West Pier Motorcycles in Edinburgh, for mail order: Richard Hacker, Britbits, Happy Hamrax, Russel Motors etc. When I was a kid going out shopping for old bike parts was like a birthday